Anna Ehrenstein - Cripto Sirenas

Anna Ehrenstein
Cripto Sirenas

und Sunny Pfalzer, Lucy Tomasino, Alexa Evangelista und Josh Davila 

30.04. – 20.06. 2025
Opening: 30.4. – 6–9 pm

“In the shadowy corridors of El Liberador, the company BETA wielded its power with an insidious technological grasp. They had substituted the fossilized state decades ago in companionship with the additional big tech giants. Mandating brain-to-computer interfaces (BCI’s) for all citizens, BETA seamlessly integrated neural implants that not only connected minds to the digital realm but also served as monitors of thought and speech. Any deviation from BETA's approved discourse triggered an automatic correction within the citizens' minds, eradicating dissenting ideas and ensuring unwavering compliance with the company's policies. Citizens who couldn't afford the regular BCI updates found themselves relegated to the societal fringes, their neural implants reminiscent of outdated software in a world far beyond their reach. Like living relics of a bygone era, these individuals became the analog remnants of a society relentlessly racing towards complete digitization. DO YOU WANT THE TOTAL DIGITIZATION?“

For her newest work cycle „Cripto Sirenas“ Anna Ehrenstein teamed up with austrian artist Sunny Pfalzer and the San Salvador based artists Lucy Tomasino and Alexa Evangelista, as well as the web3 researcher Josh Davila. Cripto Sirenas is collaborative sci-fi fable and multi-media worldbuilding venture centered around a collaborative 360° video work and extending through installation, sculptures and mixed-media photographic works. The cycle speculates on tech-solutionism, totalitarian algorithms, and their impact on our bodies through an eco- or hydro-feminist lens, rethinking crypto-colonialist extractivism through the interconnectedness of bodies of water.